What is a Personal Narrative?

This video explains what a personal narrative is, where stories come from, and where stories can be found.

Getting Started

This video explains the process of gathering ideas to write a story.

Making it Better: Ideas

This video explains how to identify the theme or main idea of a story and make a personal narrative better by adding details.

Making it Better: Ways to Hook Your Reader

This video explains and models techniques that can be used to make a narrative more interesting.

Making it Better: Elaborating

This video explains how to use writing techniques to allow the reader of a story to experience the thoughts and feelings the writer wishes to communicate.

Making it Better: Dialogue and Internal Thought

This video explains how to use dialogue and internal thought to make narrative writing better.

Making it Better: Word Choice

This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on word choice within a personal narrative.

Making it Better: Sentences

This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on the types of sentences that have been used.

Making it Better: Finishing Strong

This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on the ending of a story.

Making it Better: Organizing

This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on the organization of a story.

Finishing Touches

This video will describe how to check the writing for clarity and flow.